Attention PIO Card Holders

The deadline for conversion of PIO cards into OCI cards has been extended on several occasions in the past and the latest such extension has fixed the deadline as December 31, 2017.

All PIO card holders are requested to note that any request for conversion of PIO card to OCI card after the expiry of the current deadline of December 31, 2017 will attract a fee of USD 275.

It is also made clear that those travelling to India on the strength of their PIO cards (handwritten) after ICAO’s rules/guidelines (with respect to travel with machine readable travel documents) come into effect from October/November, 2018, will be refused entry at the Indian immigration counters and sent back.